[mythtv-users] s-video over cat 5

Tue May 6 21:52:49 EDT 2003

Hi,

  When I built my house I put all of the electronics
( DSS, Receiver, DVD, etc ) in a central closet.
Research at the time ( 5 years ago ) put a 70 foot
limit on an S-Video cable.  My longest run was 120
feet.  I found some adapters that would take the
S-Video and split the signals into two Quad-shielded
co-ax.  Ran the two lines of co-ax 120 feet,  then
used another adapter to combine them back into
S-Video.
Works great!

  If someone needs a source for these adaptors,  I
think I have a bookmark on my home system ( I'm out
of town this week ). Email me directly and I send 
you a link when I get home this weekend.

    Mike

    Mark

--- Mark Musone <mmusone at shatterit.com> wrote:
> Well, I've got a 50' one at home..have had it for
> about a year
> now..havent used it yet..(I still gotta run it :^) )
> but maybe I will
> this weekend and 
> Let you all know on the quality
> 
> -Mark
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at snowman.net
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at snowman.net] On Behalf
> Of Matthew
> Schumacher
> Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 10:16 PM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] s-video over cat 5
> 
> Please excuse my foot in mouth....
> 
> SVideo isn't designed to run at those lengths, but
> further investigation
> 
> reveals that the cables Mark is talking about is
> double shielded and it 
> also separates the signals to combat signal loss and
> interference.
> 
> At this point it is unclear to me what would work
> better.  I wonder if 
> the baluns convert the signal to a digital signal or
> if they simply 
> 'convert' the analog signal to something that is
> more transportable.
> 
> Perhaps someone can comment and help address my
> ignorance.
> 
> schu
> 
> 
> Matthew Schumacher wrote:
> > Sure, but your video will look like crap.....
> > 
> > Mark Musone wrote:
> > 
> >> You can also just get a 75 or 100 foot s-video
> cable..
> >> At www.cablestogo.com, it's just $43 and $56
> respectively..
> >> Which is probably cheaper than two balun's and
> the hassle to go with
> >> it..
> >>
> >> -Mark
> >>
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: mythtv-users-bounces at snowman.net
> >> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at snowman.net] On
> Behalf Of Shawn Edwards
> >> Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 4:39 PM
> >> To: Discussion about mythtv
> >> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] s-video over cat 5
> >>
> >> Check out www.smarthome.com.  They have doodads
> (I think they're 
> >> called balens or something like that) that will
> allow for this.  Not 
> >> cheap, I'm
> >>
> >> afraid.  Never used them, but they had better
> work for the price
> they're
> >>
> >> asking :)
> >>
> >> -Shawn
> >>
> >> David Colon wrote:
> >>
> >>
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> >>> Hi,
> >>>     I'm new to the list and haven't put anything
> together yet.  I'm
> >>> probably going to get a Hauppauge Wintv card and
> an Nvidia video
> card
> >>
> >>
> >> with
> >>
> >>> s-video out.  I've got a question about tv-out
> quality.  Is it
> possible
> >>
> >>
> >> to
> >>
> >>> run the video and audio over cat 5?  I'm looking
> at a distance of
> about
> >>
> >>
> >> 75
> >>
> >>> feet.  I'd prefer to do s-video over cat 5 and I
> once saw an adapter
> to
> >>
> >>
> >> do
> >>
> >>> it.  What kind of results can I expect with a
> setup like this?  The
> >>
> >>
> >> reason
> >>
> >>> why I ask is that I'd like to have the computer
> in my office and the
> tv
> >>
> >>
> >> in
> >>
> >>> another room on the same floor.  Plus, I hate
> the sound of the fans
> >>> running.  Eventually I want to add multiple tv
> cards to the setup to
> >>> control tvs in other rooms.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks
> >>>
> >>> David Colon
> >>> dcolon at project-w.com
> >>> http://www.project-w.com
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